Malerwinkel by iandsmith
It wasn't though as I was trying to avoid it. Nay, I had really wanted to see it. However, poor weather added to a dose of uncertainty (about how far it was) had conspired to deprive me of the experience of the so-called "painters' corner".Called the Malerwinkel, after a famous brushman, it was deservedly popular in the 19th century with landscape painters.I'd found out that it was listed as a 90 minute loop walk and you can start either at the ferry wharf or Jennerbaum, the cable car base.
We chose the boathouse start and commenced the climb into the spruce forest. There used to be many beech, sycamore and fir trees here as well but forestry practices have altered the landscape forever.
The trail eventually arrives at a point that, to the unknowing observer, must be the famed Malerwinkel. It is here that you can choose to continue the loop walk or head off to the Koenigsbachfall, a waterfall originating at 1,600 metres about 2 kms further around Koenigsee.
It is not the best view though. No, another five minutes further along there is another gap, then a third, that offer better panoramas down this fabled fiord like landscape. It is easy to understand why a painter or photographer would desire to make this excursion. It's definitely a special place.
The track then continues further up before cresting over a small hill and then descending till you walk beneath the Jennerbahn and back to the carpark or, in my case, the bus stop.
